| Anorexia nervosa is an illness that affects mostly | | | | if the body does not gain enough minerals. |
| teenage girls, but cases of anorexia have been | | | | In order to help those with anorexia you must first |
| encountered at elder women and men also. In short | | | | discover that they suffer from it. Since their own |
| words, those with anorexia intentionally starve | | | | image over their bodies is distorted they are not |
| themselves in order to lose weight, and the main | | | | aware that they have an illness that needs to be |
| problem is that they continue to starve themselves | | | | treated, and they will refuse to belive it if you tell them. |
| even after losing a lot of weight, which greatly | | | | Those with anorexia nervosa can be spotted by the |
| endangers their health and can lead them to die of | | | | following symptoms: |
| starvation eventually, if they are not stopped. | | | | -they are obsessed with losing weight, they talk about |
| It usually begins in the puberty, and its main cause is | | | | diets and losing weight all the time |
| nervous-based. Modern society's beauty standards | | | | -they refuse to eat a meal when you offer them one, |
| consider slim to be beautiful and many people think fat | | | | by making up fake reasons such as they are not |
| is ugly and disgusting, so girls try to do anything they | | | | hungry or they just ate |
| can to be as slim as possible, and they take this | | | | -even though they are very slim they continue to do a |
| obsession too far. Although the hunger causes them | | | | lot of physical exercise and try to lose more weight |
| pain and suffering , those with anorexia pretend that | | | | -some of them can go further, and each time they eat |
| they are not hungry and they do everything they can | | | | they force themselves to vomit right after, or they |
| to get more and more thin. Their image of their own | | | | overuse laxatives to empty their stomach |
| body becomes distorted and they see themselves as | | | | The treatment for those with anorexia consists in |
| fat all the time. | | | | making them gain weight and eat so they can |
| Anorexia can threaten the life if starvation continues | | | | re-establish the body's balance. Most of them refuse |
| for a longer period. It can seriously affect the heart | | | | to admit they have a problem so they must be forced |
| and heart rate and lead to heart failure, or it can cause | | | | to do it. Besides this, psychiatric treatment is needed, in |
| osteoporosis to appear because the bones can be | | | | order to make the patients realize that they have a |
| weakened if they are not supplied with the minerals | | | | problem and that in fact it's all in their head that they |
| that they need. In the women's case anorexia leads to | | | | are not thin enough. |
| amenorrhoea, and in men's case to the loss of | | | | There are many non-profit organizations designed to |
| potency. | | | | help those with anorexia overcome their problem, so |
| Furthermore, in some cases it can also affect the | | | | seeking help from one of them is recommended. |
| temporal lobe of the brain, which starts to malfunction | | | | |